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Side can be a verb or a noun.

side used as a verb:

  1. To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
    "Which will you side with, good or evil?"

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

side used as a noun:

  1. A bounding straight edge of an two-dimensional shape.
    "A square has four sides."
  2. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
    "A cube has six sides."
  3. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
    "Which side of the tray shall I put it on?"
  4. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
    "Meet me on the north side of the monument."
  5. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
    "John wrote 15 sides for his essay!"
  6. One possible aspect of a concept.
    "Look on the bright side."
  7. One set of competitors in a game.
    "Which side has kick-off?"
  8. A sports team.
  9. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
    "In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans."
  10. Sidespin; english
    "He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball"
  11. A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched .
    "I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight."
  12. A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
    "Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?"

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is side?

As detailed above, 'side' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: Which will you side with, good or evil?
  2. Verb usage: 1958 Archer Fullingim, The Kountze [Texas] News, August 28, 1958:
  3. Verb usage: "How does it feel...to...side in with those who voted against you in 1947?"
  4. Noun usage: A square has four sides.
  5. Noun usage: A cube has six sides.
  6. Noun usage: Which side of the tray shall I put it on?
  7. Noun usage: The patient was bleeding on the right side .
  8. Noun usage: Meet me on the north side of the monument.
  9. Noun usage: John wrote 15 sides for his essay!
  10. Noun usage: Look on the bright side.
  11. Noun usage: Which side has kick-off?
  12. Noun usage: In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.
  13. Noun usage: He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball
  14. Noun usage: I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.
  15. Noun usage: Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of side are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of side, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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